12 gripping new TV thrillers that will ruin your social life in 2016

With a glut of gripping new TV shows on offer in 2016, there's even more reason to snuggle up on the sofa with a cheeky glass of red.

From addictive crime sagas to spellbinding supernatural mysteries, staying in will unquestionably become the new going out in 2016, with our list of unmissable new TV shows. Infinite sofa sessions await…

Bloodline

This nail-biting thriller is available now on Netflix, so if you're looking to get your teeth stuck into something exhilaratingly new this weekend, we'll hedge our bets this one will tick all the boxes. Starring Ben Mendelsohn as hard-lucked Danny Rayburn – the black sheep of a respected, characterful family. On returning home, he threatens to expose dark family secrets from their past, causing friction and arguments amongst his other siblings.

Better Call Saul season 2

Reprising his role as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad spin-off, Critics Choice winner Bob Obenkirck will return to Netflix for season two of Better Call Saul. Dubbed as 'totally unpredictable', look forward to a thrilling roller coaster ride of pure entertainment.

House of Cards season 4

The notoriously nasty Frank Underwood returns in a brand news series of the brilliantly addictive House of Cards. Series three ended on yet another cliffhanger as we saw Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) walk out on her beloved husband. House of Cards fans will be itching in their seats to discover the aftermath of Claire's dramatic departure. There are also a whole host of new characters to welcome in season four, including Neve Campbell and Joel Kinnaman.

X Files

The much-anticipated new mini-series of 90s TV cult classic The X Files is due to return to our screens this March, and we can't wait. Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny will resurrect as legendary duo Mulder and Scully in a bid to wow viewers once more with their supernatural mystery solving antics. Excited much?

Game of Thrones season 6

Fantasy fiction at its best, George. R. R. Martin's captivating Game of Thrones saga tells the epic tale of feuding monarchies, fire-breathing dragons, dark sorcery and the walking undead. The books themselves are devilishly addictive, but HBO's accompanying TV adaptation is nothing short of spectacular. Viewers were left reeling at the end of season five as we saw handsome hero Jon Snow cut dramatically out of the show. But with rumours flying around that the Night's Watch Lord Commander has risen back from the dead, season six promises a roller coaster ride of gripping intensity.

Peaky Blinders season 3

Depraved Birmingham-based gangsters led by the breathtakingly beautiful Cillian Murphy – who could honestly resist those hypnotic, piercing blue eyes? – are bursting back onto our screens, and this time they're going global. Series three of Peaky Blinders will begin with Tommy's wedding day, but viewers will have to wait until April to see if he ties the knot with Grace or with May. Paddy Considine will be a fresh face amongst the Shelby crowd and Tom Hardy will return as the harrowingly brutal Alfie.

Outcast

Based on the adult comic books by Robert Kirkman (the mastermind behind the Walking Dead), this supernatural horror follows Kyle Barnes Gone Girls' Patrick Fugit), who has spent his whole life plagued by demonic possession. With the help of Reverend Anderson, (Life On Mars' Philip Glenister), a strange and slightly corrupt evangelical preacher who likes to drink and gamble, Kyle embarks on a journey desperate to regain the normal life he once knew. Seriously sinister and creepy, this terrifying horror is a brand new American Horror Story in the making.

Stranger Things

A new Netflix offering starring Winona Ryder that tells the creepy tale of a single mum whose young son disappears unexpectedly in 1980s Indiana. A mysterious investigation is launched that unleashes a whirlwind of sinister secrets, terrifying supernatural forces and a very strange little girl. As friends, family and police search for unanswered questions, they are drawn into a web of extraordinary paranormal weirdness involving top-secret experiments and bizarre mystical encounters. If you're a fan of The Returned, or just a Winona megafan, Stranger Things should absolutely make it on this year's watch list.

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Stranger Things, July 2016, Netflix.

Westworld

HBO's new sci-fi thriller is based on the original 1973 film, and described as a 'dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and future of sin.' Produced and directed by Star Wars director JJ Abrams, Westworld relays the story of a futuristic amusement park where visitors can live out their wildest fantasies. The TV adaptation will star Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Thandie Newton.

Taboo

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Tom Hardy fans prepare to rejoice. Not only will we see the magnificent Mr. Hardy return in the third series of Peaky Blinders, we'll get to ogle at him unashamedly in a new eight-part BBC One drama Taboo. Steven Knight's story (based on an original story by Hardy and his father Chips) follows an adventurer returning from Africa with 14 stolen diamonds, looking to seek vengeance for his father's death.

Taboo, BBC One, 2016.

The Secret Agent

Based on the classic Joseph Conrad novel – and produced by the team responsible for Line of Duty – The Secret Agent is a BBC spy thriller about a secret Russian agent, Verloc (played by Toby Jones) spying on a group of London anarchists. Vicky McClure plays Verloc's wife, Winnie, whose loyalties aren't quite what they seem.

The Secret Agent, will air on BBC One later this year.

Undercover

A new drama series created by Peter Moffat – the brains behind popular drama series Silk – starring Sophie Okendo who plays Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. As her life falls under scrutiny in the media, she discovers her husband (played by Adrian Lester) has been lying to her for years, but she's unsure if it's as simple as an affair or something wholly more sinister.

Undercover, BBC One 2016.

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